Contributions

  • Luna, Francisco Vidal, author - Contributor

Publication

2017 - Yale University Press, Connecticut

Language

English

Word Count

49,000 words, Guess

Page Count

196 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100300223315
  • ISBN-139780300223316
  • Library of Congress Control Number2016951587
  • OCLC Control Number959596388
  • OCLC Control Number986206449
and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780300223316
  • Open LibraryOL26886172M

Classifications

  • DDC981.06/3
  • LCCF2538.25 .K54 2017
  • LCCF2538.25

Alternate Titles

  • Military regimes of Latin America in the Cold War

Description

Cuba's revolution in 1959 fueled powerful anti-Communist fears in the United States. As a result, in the years that followed, governments throughout Central and South America were toppled in U.S.-backed military coups, and by 1977 only three democratically elected leaders remained in all of Latin America. This perceptive study, coauthored by a revered historian and a prominent economist, examines how the military rulers of Brazil profoundly altered the nation’s economy, politics, and society during their two decades in power, and it explores the lasting impact of these changes after democracy was restored. Comparing and contrasting the history, programs, methods, and goals of Brazil’s Cold War–era authoritarian government with the military regimes of Peru, Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, and Uruguay, authors Herbert Klein and Francisco Vidal Luna offer a fascinating, detailed analysis of the Brazilian experience from 1964 to 1985, one of the darkest, most difficult periods in Latin American history. --

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